owleyey3o

> "visual pollution"

I like that framing.

You don't happen to work in advertising or an industry directly propped up by it do you? I detect a button having been pushed here..

Regardless, I agree that mixing this "let's get rid of advertising so as to suppress this *ism I don't like" tends to politicise the "What if?" more than it needs to.

I have no doubt that there is a huge amount of unwritten rage/fear/confusion behind this article. There is an elephant in the room after all.. Hell, that elephant is so big, it's cleared the room, smashed the hall, briefly starred in an idiotic TV show, and now it's stomping across the globe. *ahem*

> Total fantasy .. Absolutely zero...

Advertising is regulated in a variety of ways in the US and around the elephant-trodden globe. It's easy to lack imagination when your livelihood is tied to a status-quo. Blind spots, we all have them.

> Products need marketing

I'd just turn that around and say that marketing needs Products.

> Banning billboards

yep

> Any article...

Agree

I think Bill Hicks had something to say about this once: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h9wStdPkQY